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01 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Finding the Confidence to Apply to HBS

admitted. For the Class of 2020, GMAT scores range from 610 to 800. HBS evaluates candidates holistically going well beyond standardized tests, so do not let this stop you from applying. Being your authentic self is much more important... View Details

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2.1.4 Classroom Non-Attribution | MBA

2.1.4 Classroom Non-Attribution 2.1 Academic Standards of Conduct Harvard Business School’s mission is to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. As outlined in the School’s Community Values, realizing that mission requires an... View Details

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Strategic Plan | Information Technology

Assets We establish a security-first mindset across HBS to proactively identify, assess, and remediate vulnerabilities. We also ensure compliance with privacy standards and regulations while establishing balanced security policies that... View Details

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Powerful Ideas - Annual Report 2014

that would demonstrate to companies the merits of cooperating with the fledgling school. The first bulletin, on shoe retailing, was published in 1913; unique for its time, it represented a “scientific” approach to the study of business, using a View Details

Raymond A. Kroc

Kroc capitalized on America’s “eat on the run” society. Believing in the real profits of fast food, he bought out the McDonald brothers and developed a restaurant empire. By the 1960s, he had 228 restaurants with annual sales totaling $37 million. Kroc emphasized View Details

Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging

30 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 30

and by the effects of their private governance mechanisms. These organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Break the Rules of How Business is Done

Taking a risk by breaking with standard operating procedure can make your company more innovative. Credit: maxsattana In addition to creating a new company that is disrupting the status quo, many founders are also challenging the old... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

Alden J. Laborde

One year after founding the Ocean Drilling and Exploration Company, Laborde had produced the world’s first offshore mobile drilling rig, quickly setting a new standard in the industry. This was followed by a series of new oil drilling... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

considerations. Important impediments to the use of ESG information are the lack of reporting standards and as a result, lack of comparability, reliability, quantifiability, and timeliness. Among the different ESG investment styles,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Feb 2007
What Do You Think?

Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?

can be found in: (1) discovery, the challenge of adventure and innovation characterized by dot-com entrepreneurs willing to work 24/7 in search of the new or unknown, (2) excellence, in which high standards are not compromised for... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

13 Sep 2019
Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

simultaneously and meeting personal due dates and quality standards. More importantly, we have the skills to coach teams to meet their deadlines and standards as well. Second, I learned that I love helping teams that are making real... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?

Refined metals like gold and silver have a standard quality and are priced on global exchanges like the London Metal Exchange. But concentrates vary widely in terms of quality—some rocks have more copper than others, some come with... View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres

01 Jun 1996
News

Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

evaluations, notes McCraw, "were an overwhelming collective valentine to the course." The Dynamics of Capitalist Revolutions — Cases in Point British Capitalism How the first industrializer set a standard for others to match Josiah... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

26 Apr 2011
News

BioMine Strikes Gold

affordable and standardized medical appointments to low income families that are uninsured and underserved by the public system, in the poorest districts of Brazil’s largest cities. Spendwisor.com enables consumer electronics purchasers... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

variables, the note describes the standard properties of the normal distribution: a single peak, and a symmetric, bell-shaped curve.” Axis My India Ananth Raman, Ann B. Winslow, and Kairavi Dey “Pradeep Gupta founded Axis My India (AMI)... View Details

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

years. One of his students, Simon Kuznets, developed [a standard way to measure] Gross National Product there in the 1930s. In all these ways, the growth of the forecasting industry spurred efforts to make sense of economic change. Q: How... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

company or team goals from the get-go. "Empowerment can happen only when there's a consensus on goals and an agreement that certain standards have to be met," Kanter says. "If there isn't agreement in the beginning, that's... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

erosion of the economy, which could lead to a decline in the standard of living. An individual company, though, can move assets anywhere. So companies can reward their shareholders regardless of what happens to the national economy. As a... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

10 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-098.pdf Evidence from Goodwill Non-impairments on the Effects of Unverifiable Fair-Value Accounting (revised May 2008) Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watt Abstract SFAS 142 requires firms to use unverifiable fair-value estimates... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

of having cases written about them? How do you work with reluctance or hesitation? A: Most Japanese companies I contacted to ask for cooperation to develop cases have been quite cooperative. I believe that the high academic standards of... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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